January 5, 2026

You.com Hackathon Track

Mariane Bekker

Senior Developer Relations

About You.com

You.com is the leading AI search infrastructure—built for developers.

Our APIs let you build intelligent agents and applications that use live, factual data from the web, news, and research—in real time.

With just a few lines of code, you can power your LLMs with up-to-date, citation-backed results instead of static training data.

Your Challenge: Build with You.com APIs

Create an AI agent, app, or integration that uses one or more You.com APIs to deliver smarter, more reliable, and real-time results.

Example ideas:

  • AI-Powered Search Assistant: Ground your application in live web data and return citation-backed answers using the Search API. Perfect for LLM grounding, knowledge graphs, or real-time Q&A.
  • Research Copilot: Combine the Agents API with Search and Compute tools to
  • summarize, analyze, and cite recent papers, news, or datasets—just like an AI research partner.
  • Insight Dashboard: Use Search, News, and Contents APIs to track emerging trends, mentions, and insights across industries—visualized in real time.
  • Custom Reasoning Agent: Build an agent that can plan multi-step workflows, perform live research, and explain complex topics using the Advanced Agents API.
  • Live News Analyzer: Pull and summarize the latest headlines in AI, finance, or tech using the Live News API, and auto-generate daily briefings or alerts.
  • AI Data Analyst: Use the Compute Tool to extract and crunch numbers from live sources—for example, comparing cloud pricing or analyzing public datasets with reasoning steps explained.
  • Knowledge Copilot: Build a chat assistant that answers any q uestion with up-to-date information, citations, and reasoning powered by You.com ’s APIs.

The best hacks combine creativity + reasoning + real data. Don’t just generate —understand, cite, and act with You.com.

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